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Left loses in Singur, Nandigram

What's fanning heat waves

Indo-Gangetic Plain residents live 7 years less than other Indians: Study

This is because air quality in the region fails to meet the WHO’s guidelines on particulate pollution

A fish moves west

Ten years ago Bangladesh’s rivers were deeper and hilsa plentiful. Silting, dams and pollution pushed the fisher into deep ocean leading to …

After halt in MGNREGS work, ‘ghost colonies’ emerge across West Bengal as villages empty in search of employment

Lack of work opportunities see rural residents permanently migrate with families

Sundarbans is cyclone capital of India: IMD report

Around 70% cyclones in the area from 1961-2020 were severe

Bengal buys dirtiest coal-based power generated in India: CSE study

TPPs in the state have not taken adequate measures to control pollution

Fast-developing nations still home to half of world’s hungry and malnourished people: report

Study also stresses on positive impact of sanitation on nutrition status of children

Arsenic just got dirtier

Exposure to arsenic also increases risk of hypertension

Yummy but harmful

Indian markets are flooded with foods that contain colours beyond permissible limits

Light boosts fish fertility

Claims a study on Catla catla

Cancer cure

Straight from the brain

Protests over nuclear land in West Bengal

First-ever tidal plant in Sunderbans in West Bengal

Sunderbansto have country's first tidal power plant

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Solar units beyond people's reach in Sunderbans

Green home

Kalahandi Gram Sabhas write to NCST, invoke atrocities act against Jharkhand DFO

DFO illegally seized consignment of kendu leaves being transported from Odisha to West Bengal, federation of Gram Sabhas alleges

COVID-19 warriors: How a student group helped stranded migrants

A group of 30-odd students in rural Bengal started a forum with a helpline service, provided relief to 5,000 migrants across the country

'We are using the sea as a dustbin'

The Indian coastline no longer belongs to its traditional custodians—the small fisher people. A jamboree of development—cities, SEZs, …

COVID-19, bad weather affect livelihoods in Bengal's Sundarbans

Inhabitants forced to enter forest areas that are home to man-eaters, other wild animals

Feted and forgotten: poster girl of Polio

Rukhshar Khatun is the last child to contract the disease in the country

Fall of golden fibre

An inefficient industry is marring prospects of jute, paving way for plastics